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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine reading a book ghostwritten for me.
mircea_popescu: hm... i guess in the context "color me" is a faux pas ?
mircea_popescu: most nobody knew who he was. so fucking funny this shit, whenever something happened, the us "public intellectual" has to show up
mircea_popescu: "Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer." << that ayers ?
mircea_popescu: or with the - horror of horrors - sensitive, lonely, loving geek.
mircea_popescu: one thing i don't think anyone can blame the whorish co-ed for, not getting involved with the bros.
mircea_popescu: "fucking idiots - the lot of them". exact quote. heard xn
mircea_popescu: generally can not stand young man, irrespective of money.
mircea_popescu: and you will notice that even as an amateur - she ALSO charges for queing, ie, after the fact.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, i'm a coder because i ocasionally edit html o.O
mircea_popescu: yeah, i suppose if by "programmer" you meant "web programmer"...
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is at best naive to imagine whore is whore "because the money". not so. whore does not give a shit, at which point might as well be paid. because - queue. has to be sorted somehow.
mircea_popescu: or at least could a while back. mebbe world's changed, who knows.
mircea_popescu: heck, you can just throw some printed sheets out of a car going "gangbang at X address" and you'll get a queue
mircea_popescu: eh, that's a corner case. most men don't need to be paid to fuck.
mircea_popescu: elena is in no way different from evita, on this score.
mircea_popescu: thus whore always finds herself in the position where the cheapest avenue is to ask master for a hammer to shut the dumbasses up.
mircea_popescu: however, the nitwits are a) abundant and b) firmly convinced of the contrary.
mircea_popescu: it's a very simple thing : whores are, in point of fact, for the fact of having been whores, superior to "mere women", ie, the usual vanilla nitwit. this is a fact, incontrovertible as the fact that the sun is glowier than the moon.
mircea_popescu: "he is what he might have been had he been it". how about that ? insanity rampant.
mircea_popescu: i prefer to refer to that other thing as kim-il-nigger. seems adequate.
mircea_popescu: when the necks are [self]squeezed to the point a supposed "law school" publishes that tripe it is ANOTHER thing.
mircea_popescu: see... that random schmuck doesn't know which side his nose is blown is one thing.
mircea_popescu: istinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."
mircea_popescu: "From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is d
mircea_popescu: yes, sure. fuck them, who cares what the cattle "thinks".
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the muppet in chief : anyone ever recall that embarassment when he was calling himself a "professor of constitution" while having been a lecturer, so eventually chicago came out with "he was REGARDED as a professor" ?
mircea_popescu: see, they're all selling the same snake oil, but! harvard is "for humanity', stanford is "patriotism", mit is "for the economy", the chicks one whatever it's called is "for the arts" etc.
mircea_popescu: and anyone (tm) should be able to sever a cervical spine at twenty paces.
mircea_popescu: in fact, most sentires do not even realise they've been shot at if you miss before you reload.
mircea_popescu: "Confirmed: self-inflicted gunshot by neutralized subject," Capital Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said in a statement.
mircea_popescu: links right into why one can't have "ideas" and all that.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the same string from different hands is different, irreducibly.
mircea_popescu: introducing the gossipd style of comms changes nothing at all, merely makes this divide palpable, like that famous japanese butcher's following of the lines already there.
mircea_popescu: the problem with ascii being like naughty bits is merely a reflection of the much larger problem : everything about a text is like that. by itself.
mircea_popescu: tyvm. meanwhile, i can't fucking remember where the tread on X is. so what do i do ? i ask here. and someone remembers and links.
mircea_popescu: he's going to freeze the text AND THE OS dontcha know.
mircea_popescu: and that cause almost always is, "i can not believe how stupid i've been"
mircea_popescu: rarely do people wish to forget for a purpose. it's almost always for a cause
mircea_popescu: it may be that they wanted to forget for the reason you suspect, but i do not think so.
mircea_popescu: probably dotcom bust rattled enough of the people that they wanted to forget.
mircea_popescu: and by "can read it" i mean, of course, "could have written it"
mircea_popescu: everyone that can read it may keep a copy, and no one else.
mircea_popescu: what i am saying is that preconceived notions must be shared, for the text to be readable. these preconceptions melted.
mircea_popescu: they only exist because you saved the unsaveable as well,
mircea_popescu: just as much a part of it is invisible, and that invisibly decayed.
mircea_popescu: again - the supposition that the entire text is given in itself is naive.
mircea_popescu: much like any living organism, the text can only be interpreted in its environment (here - the people who wrote it), and only as a functional, living thing.
mircea_popescu: the usenet : you can not "preserve in ice". this requires two naive presupositions : one that the text is self contained, the other that the text is fixed. neither is true.